Cabbage News Network Week #95

[kmusser]

Monday 11/19

• CIA reports that Saudi Crown Prince ordered journalists death, DJT still won't believe it (source).
  
• Senate Dems sue to prevent Whitaker appointment (source).
  
• EPA southeast regional chief resigns over ethics charges (source).
  
• White House official working on Saudi policy resigns (source).
  
• Subsidy program to help farmers hit by DJT's tariffs hasn't been paying out (source).

Tuesday 11/20

• Dems to investigate Ivanka's use of private e-mail for government business - insert your "but her e-mails" cries here (source).
  
• Judge blocks the administration's attempt to limit the number of asylum seekers (source).
  
• Census citizenship question headed to the Supreme Court (source).
  
• DJT confirms that murdering journalists is a-ok as long as it's done by one of his allies (source).
  
• DJT submits some written answers to Mueller's questions (source).
  
• White House economic advisor Kudlow says 'Recession is so far in the distance I can't see it'. Congressional Budget Office and Goldman-Sachs put that in 2019, make your own conclusions about Kudlow's eyesight (source, source).
  
• WTO to rule on legality of DJT's tariffs, that is assuming the U.S. doesn't render the WTO completely powerless (source).
  
• Interior Dept. moves to open up more of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to drilling (source).
  
• VA denied health care to veterans with ALS (source).

Wednesday 11/21

U.S. crops being left to rot thanks to trade war with China (source).

• U.S. to build military outposts along Turkey-Syria border (source).
  
• IRS to loosen gift tax rule for gifts over $5 million(source).

Thursday 11/22

• Happy Thanksgiving!
  
• House judiciary committee subpeonas Comey and Lynch over Clinton's e-mails (source).
  
• Long lines at Mexican border crossings (source).
  
• DJT threatens to close Mexico border (source).
  
• Administration seeks to dissolve Wampanoag tribe (source) (note there is more than one Wampanoag tribe, this is targeting one of them).

Friday 11/23

• Administration to issue climate change report (source).

Map of the week

Legislative update

• Legislation signed into law
  
  1 minor bill
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature - nothing new
  
  • Water infrastructure bill https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s3021
    
  • 19 minor bills
    
  • Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate - nothing new
    
    • 746 total pending bills
    
    
  • Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House - nothing new
    
    • 141 total pending bills